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- 1. THE FALL OFTHE HOUSE OF USHER
- 2. EDGARD ALLAN POE Americanwriter, poet and critic. Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell- Tale Heart" and "The Raven."
- 3. VIDEO OF THEFALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
- 4. NARRATION OF THESHORT STORY A sense of insufferable gloom pervated his spirit
- 5. Roderick Usher washis companion in boyhood. Its principal feature was of an excessive antiquity.
- 6. -His illness, amental disorder - the desire to see the narrator -To help him in the alleviation of his malady or sickness
- 7. The entire familylain in the direct line of descent. It was a transmission from sire to son.
- 8. The narrator describes theantiquity of the house and its furniture. Usher’s countenance conviced the narrator of a perfect sincerity.
- 9. He is describedas a cadaverous one and that he had an excessive agitation.
- 10. Usher’s malady wasa constitutional and family evil. Lady Madeline had a cataleptical character
- 11. The narrator noticeda small picture in the interior of a vault or tunnel.
- 12. THE HAUNTED PALACE Poetrythat describes the dancing of ghosts and the phantasmagoric palace. It can be compared with the “House of Usher”.
- 13. The lady Madelinewas no more. They encoffined the body.
- 14. The narrator feltthe full power of horror. “Mad Trist” a book of similar anomalies.
- 15. She had bloodin her robes. She remained trembling but then, she fell upon Usher.
- 16. The narrator fledaway from the mansion. A whirlwind destroyed the walls. There was a shouting and the tarn closed sinlently over the fragments of the “House of Usher”.
- 18. CHARACTERS The narrator He waschildhood friends with Roderick Usher.
- 19. Roderick Usher The lastliving descendant, along with his ailing sister Madeline, of the Ushers
- 20. Madeline She suffers froma mysterious illness, cataleptic in nature, never otherwise explained.
- 21. PLOT Internal Conflict: Superstitionthey feel while in the house. External Conflict: Roderick is physically ill.
- 22. RISING ACTION Roderick Usherasks the narrator to visit him to try to make him feel better.
- 23. CLIMAX Roderick Usher seesLady Madeline burst through the door as stand in the doorway covered in blood that she got from escaping the coffin.
- 24. FALLING ACTION Lady Madelineattacks Roderick for burying her when she was still alive.
- 25. RESOLUTION Roderick Usher diesand the narrator flees the scene as the house comes down with both Lady Madeline and Roderick Usher leaving no trace.
- 26. THEMES * Mortality * Fear *Incest * Friendship